4:45 LRN Sportscast

After getting no-hit on Sunday versus Oklahoma, 20th ranked LSU returns to the baseball diamond tonight to host Southeastern Louisiana. The Lions are 5-and-6 and also struggling at the plate, hitting just .233 as a team.

After scoring 65 runs in four games, Louisiana Tech is at Sam Houston State. The Bearkats are coming off a series in which they dropped two out of three to U-L Lafayette. Meanwhile, The Cajuns are at Rice tonight.

ULM and Jackson State meet tonight in Monroe. They come into tonight’s game ranked number one and two in the country in hitting.

LSU’s Beach volleyball squad is ranked number one after beating previously top-ranked UCLA on back-to-back weekends. It’s the first number one ranking in the program’s seven-year history.

LSU’s track and field women’s and men’s programs are ranked number one heading into the 2020 NCAA Indoor Championships on March 13th and 14th.

Memphis’s victory over Atlanta last night puts the Grizzlies 3.5 games ahead of New Orleans for the final playoff spot in the West. The Pelicans host Minnesota at seven PM tonight. The NBA announced today that Zion Williamson is the Western Conference Rookie of the Month. The number one pick averaged 26 points and six rebounds in February and shot 56-percent from the field.

In college basketball action tonight, The Ragin Cajuns host Coastal Carolina. The winner of this game will host a first-round Sun Belt Tournament game on Saturday. ULM will not be in the Sun Belt Tourney so the Warhawks will host Appalachian State in their final game of the season tonight.

McNeese’s Dru Kuxhausen has been named Southland Player of the Week. He hit 14 threes in two games last week to break the conference record for most three-pointers in a season. The Pokes are at Nicholls tomorrow.

And LSU basketball is at Arkansas tomorrow, while La Tech hosts F-I-U.